Should CEO's get bonuses?

[Wilma]

This was a question on CNBC this morning and to me there is only one answer.  NO!!!!

Maybe if the company has a huge profit, has no debt and the stockholders get a good dividend, then, at the discretion of the stockholders, the CEO could have a bonus.

[Catwoman]

In this economy, with so many people losing their jobs, no CEO should accept any bonus...it's too close to being blood money...if I were a CEO, I'd donate any bonus received to a food bank...and thank God that I was still employed.

[srkruzich]

IF the person was hired and a bonus based on performance is part of his pay package, then yeah pay up.  Thats only right.

[Wilma]

And if the bonus is based on performance and the performance is sending the company into bankruptcy, should he get the bonus?

[Catwoman]

No way, nowhere, no how.  To accept that bonus is tatamount to stealing...it is amoral, unethical and unbelievably callous.

[srkruzich]

IF the bonus is based on performance, then if he doesn't perform he doesn't get a bonus. 

Bonus's are not unethical.  Aquiring a bonus without meeting the conditions to get that bonus is.

[Catwoman]

IF the bonus is based on performance, then if he doesn't perform he doesn't get a bonus. 

Bonus's are not unethical.  Aquiring a bonus without meeting the conditions to get that bonus is.

Agreed!